TOPEKA—State Senator Elaine Bowers is happy to announce the members of staff who will assist her in the 2020 Legislative Session are Legislative Office/Committee Assistant Randi Walters, of Topeka; and intern Jeffrey Metzler, of Minneapolis.
This will be Walters’ fourth year serving as Senator Bowers’ office assistant. Prior to working for Senator Bowers, Walters was employed for 30 years at Southwestern Bell before working at the Capitol where she has assisted several legislators for over 15 years.
Jeffrey Metzler is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student at Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar, MO). He was raised on a farm outside of Minneapolis, Kansas, and graduated from Minneapolis High School in 2016. Metzler served as a page for Senator Bowers in 2012 while she was a State Representative and again in 2013 during her first year in the Senate.
For the 2020 Legislative Session, Senator Bowers will serve as Chair of the Ethics, Elections and Local Government Committee, as well as a member of the Legislative Post Audit committee, Capitol Preservation Committee, Transportation Committee, Utilities Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Interstate Cooperation Committee.
She is also the Senate Majority Whip.
Senator Bowers was first elected to the Senate in 2012, representing Senate District 36. The district includes Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa, Republic, Rooks, Russell, Smith, and Washington counties, as well as parts of Phillips and Marshall Counties.
Today she represents over 71,000 people in north-central, western, and eastern Kansas along the border of Nebraska. The 36th District is the second largest in the state; 13 counties, over 10,500 square miles with Concordia and Cloud County as the largest city and county.
Prior to serving in the Senate, Senator Bowers served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 through 2012, representing House District 107.
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